the world
in unspoken quiet lies
its breath seems stolen in its place
the distance is perceived
and still it grows
as we stand rooted in our space
the birds deftly calibrate the sky
they're out of reach and far away
clouds rain copiously upon
people trudging down below
they shuffle along
ghost-stepping through their days
the colors of the world are not gone
somehow they stubbornly presist
a growing hush surrounds us, ecchoes and rebounds
as our lives mechanically attempt to move along
while free-floating time seems to sleep and drift
the colors of the flowers attempt to speak
the language of a renewing spring
but their words no longer understood,
the beauty of them almost fails to exist...
a bracing wind blows their petals away...
yet still their blooms bob and bow
moving together in colored waves in the growing breeze
their fragile beauty fails to thrill
the spingtime message of joy faltering
as if diseased
intrepid now is their up-rooted dance of
once fragrant lilacs and golden daffodils.
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